I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.