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.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

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