My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Think not I am what I appear.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.