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

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

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.