[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

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

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.