Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

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.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.