Fear God, and take your own part. - George Borrow

If you must commit suicide – and there is no knowing to what people may be brought – always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

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

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.