Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.