It Is As Useless To Fight Against

... The Business Of Life Shuts Us Up Within The Environs Of London And Within Sight Of Human Advancement, Which I Should Be So Very Glad To Believe In Without Seeing.

Susceptible Persons Are More Affected By A Change Of Tone That By Unexpected Words.

Genius Is The Capacity For Receiving And Improving By Discipline.

It Is Always Chilling, In Friendly Intercourse, To Say You Have No Opinion To Give.

But I Think It Is Hardly An Argument Against A Man's General Strength Of Character, That He Should Be Apt To Be Mastered By Love. A Fine Constitution Doesn't Insure One Against Small-pox Or Any Other Of Those Inevitable Diseases. A Man May Be Very Firm In Other Matters, And Yet Be Under A Sort Of Witchery From A Woman.