I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

Oh, that peace may come.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.