Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.