An amiable weakness.
“The newspapers! Sir they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”
“The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.”
“...[A]ll the elements which belong to the notion of happiness are altogether empirical, that is, they must be borrowed from experience, and nevertheless the idea of happiness requires an absolute w...”
“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.”
“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?”
