A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.