The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.