When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

A policeman's lot is not a happy one

Life is a joke that's just begun.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.