Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Writing is busy idleness.