When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Virtue is too often merely local.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.