I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.