How success changes the opinion of men!

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

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.

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

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.