“Never say more than is necessary.”

“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”

“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”

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

“You write with ease, to show your breeding,But easy writing's curst hard reading.”

“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”