Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

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