There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.