Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

God alone can finish.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.