Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
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.
The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil’d umbrella’s sides.