Biography
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Essays by
On a house
“Heaven send us such a house, or a house of some kind; but Heaven send us also the liberty to furnish it as we choose.”
On advertisement
“And there it is. There is no moral; there is no conclusion or application. The world is not quite infinite–but it is astonishingly full.”
On getting respected in inns and hotels
“Religion and the full meaning of things has nowhere more disappeared from the modern world than in the department of Guide Books.”
On the illness of my muse
“The other day I noticed that my Muse, who had long been ailing, silent and morose, was showing signs of actual illness.”
On the pleasure of taking up one’s pen
“Pray, little pen, be worthy of the love I bear you, and consider how noble I shall make you some day”
On railways and things
“New lines of travel are like canals cut through the stagnant marsh of an old civilisation.”
On them
“If one had the time one could watch Them day after day, and never see Them do a single kind or good thing, or be moved by a single virtuous impulse.”