The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

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".

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

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

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

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

The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.