It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

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.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.