The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!