I never read a book before reviewing it: it prejudices a man so. - Sydney Smith

I am old, but I certainly have not that sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

Economy, in the estimation of common minds, often means the absence of all taste and comfort.