I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

We of the craft are all crazy.

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.