When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend.