Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.