Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.