The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.