I feel particularly sad about the families, |
I hate a man who swallows it [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters. |
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair |
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces |
I have no ear. |
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature. |
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. |
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. |
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. |
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. |
It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. |
It is good to love the unknown. |
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. |
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. |
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. |