Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Big-endians and small-endians.

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.