Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
Books, the children of the brain.
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.