Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.