Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

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

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.