Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.