"Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune."
- Charles Lamb
"In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces."
"Riches are chiefly good because they give us time."
"I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man."
"He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society."
"Neat not gaudy."
"We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one."
"The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his."
"For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die."