The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.