"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."

"I am not mad; I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."

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

"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not?"

"It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or e…"