When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

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

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

Those who can command themselves command others.