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

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

How success changes the opinion of men!

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

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.