"I have made it a rule of my life to avoid all unnecessary contact with the world."

"I am always hearing of the good old times. I wish to Heaven the good old times had never come back again."

"He was a good-looking man, and a good-for-nothing man."

"It is a very remarkable thing, that the very things which are most necessary are the very things that are most neglected."

"He was a man of a ponderous and solemn aspect; a man who might have been a bishop, or a judge, or a prime minister, or anything else that was grave and dignified."