It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.
Big-endians and small-endians.
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil’d umbrella’s sides.
Hail fellow, well met.
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.