The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

Invention breeds invention.