The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed