Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.