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!

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

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

Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.