Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime..

A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I ha….

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin thro….

Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?.

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they h….

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scri….

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it..