Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.