Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.