Suspense is worse than disappointment.
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.