Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

The vices of some men are magnificent.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.