Nature Is Seldom In The Wrong, Custom

I Have All My Life Been On My Guard Against The Information Conveyed By The Sense Of Hearing -- It Being One Of My Earliest Observations, The Universal Inclination Of Humankind Is To Be Led By The Ears, And I Am Sometimes Apt To Imagine That They Are Given To Men As They Are To Pitchers, Purposely That They May Be Carried About By Them.

I Despise The Pleasure Of Pleasing People That I Despise.

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

Forgive What You Can't Excuse.

The Knowledge Of Numbers Is One Of The Chief Distinctions Between Us And The Brutes.