Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.

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

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.