Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.