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.

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.

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

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.

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.

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

My life and career is my own adventure.

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

I can't compare family to athletics.

Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.