"The women, too, it appears, were oddly deformed by a natural protuberance of the region just below the small of the back—although, most unaccountably, this deformity was looked on altogether in the li…"

"I intend to be the first American author of any note."

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"Why does a lady in tight corsets never need comfort? Because she's already so laced. — solaced."

"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."