Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Experience comes from bad judgment.