Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is…

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

The burden of the incommunicable.

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

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin [sic] upon this …

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