So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.

Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.