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

“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.”

“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.”

“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”