This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.

Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

[Of Coleridge] His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.

A good-natured woman...which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor.