I Prefer Liberty To Chains Of Diamonds.

No Modest Man Ever Did Or Ever Will Make A Fortune.

Lord Bacon Makes Beauty To Consist Of Grace And Motion.

Muse, Time Has Taught Me That All Metaphysical Systems, Even Historical Facts Given As Truths, Are Hardly That, So I Amuse Myself With More Agreeable Lies; I No Longer Read Anything But Novels.

Miserable Is The Fate Of Writers: If They Are Agreeable, They Are Offensive; And If Dull, They Starve.

People Never Write Calmly But When They Write Indifferently.