Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.