These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

You might be a redneck if the best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.

I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.