A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.

There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not r…

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep: …

To while away the idle hours, seated the livelong day before the inkslab, by jotting down without order or purpose whatever trifling thoughts pass through my m…