In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thomas de QuinceyFor tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.
Thomas de QuinceyIt was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
Thomas de QuinceyAs is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.
Thomas de Quincey