I've a grand memory for forgetting.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.