Who said “A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as…”?

“The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.”

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.”

“Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.”

“"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."”

“People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”

“The post of honor is a private station.”

“Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.”

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”

“Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.”

“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”

“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”