Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

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

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

I loved him for himself alone.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.