In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.