Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

Well I've had a happy life.

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

Time,--the most independent of all things.