When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.