 It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. |
| A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. |
| Two great talkers will not travel far together. |
| Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. |
| I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. |
| Translation is at best an echo. |
| Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. |
| There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. |
