England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.