Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.