The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
Before Turner there was no fog in London.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.