We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.