I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

Life is too short for a long story

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.