Who said “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.”

“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.”

“"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.”

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”

“We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.”

“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.”

“I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”