At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.