A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

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

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.