Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.