"That man is a fool who cannot be a knave when he pleases."

"I have no faith in any system of philosophy that does not begin with God."

"The value of a conundrum is in exact proportion to the extent of its demerit, and that it is only positively good when it is outrageously and scandalously absurd."

"The most remarkable feature in this production is the bad paper on which it is printed, and the typographical ingenuity with which matter barely enough for one volume has been spread over the pages of…"

"I have often thought that the sole regret of the transformed butterfly must be that it can only live for a day."