Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.