Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.