Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.