I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.