Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.