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.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.