Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?