To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.