In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

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

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

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