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

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.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.