The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

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.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.