As the French say, there are three sexes — men, women, and clergymen. - Sydney Smith

No one minds what Jeffrey says:[…] it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the Equator.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage

Every rock in the ocean where a cormorant can perch is occupied by our troops — has a governor, deputy-governor, storekeeper, and deputy-storekeeper — and will soon have an archdeacon and a bishop. Military colleges, with thirty-four professors, educating seventeen ensigns per annum, being half an ensign for each professor, with every species of nonsense, athletic, sartorial, and plumigerous.