If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame….

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the h….

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible..

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory..

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has bee….

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies..

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning..

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief..

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked..

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he h….

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention..

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be mea….

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities..

Our memories are independent of our wills..

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them..

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it..

Those that vow the most are the least sincere..

Humanity always becomes a conqueror..

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it..

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin..