A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.