We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.