"I have been a victim of a thousand phantasies."

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

"The waggish author of 'The New Mirror' is, I believe, the first who has openly maintained the doctrine that the great end of a writer is to get money."

"I am a firm believer in the doctrine of original sin."

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