Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.