Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

I think it’s despicable,

If you’re frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you’ll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with...

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of...

When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated,...

And in the ocean I will fly to the bottomless pit of darkness