Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.