The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

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

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.