If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.