Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Love is only one of many passions.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.