My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night..

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before w….

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor..

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin..

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty..

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins..

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost..

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is etern….

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot..

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted..

Evil prospers when good men do nothing..