Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

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.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.