Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.