I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirit….

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is ver….

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman..

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime..

Translation is at best an echo..

Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers….

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing a….

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one..

We must walk before we run..

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost s….

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a seda….

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 vacu….

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale..

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands..

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug..

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep..

Two great talkers will not travel far together..