When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.