The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. - Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."... There was another fine passage too which he struck out: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over; for I found that generally what was new was false."

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.