The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.