Douglas Jerrold

The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.

I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.