Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.