Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.