Thomas Palin

- those who have quitted the world, and those who are not yet arrived at it are as remote to each other as the utmost stretch of mortal imagination can conceive.

- When the tongue or the pen let loose in a frenzy of passion, it's the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

- The weaker any cord is, the less will it bear to be stretched, and the worse is the policy to stretch it, unless it's intended to break it.