If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.