Who said “The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”?

“There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.”

“Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.”

“Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)”

“It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.”

“Lawyers I suppose were children once.”

“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”

“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”

“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.”

“Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”

“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.”