"A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made."

"Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!"

"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy …"

"Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated—everlasting farewells!"

"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities … will always be the favourite…"

"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage."

"Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else."

"For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he come…"

"The burden of the incommunicable."

"Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest…"