We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably For instance, he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years; a most palpable error. ... It is wonderful that Buffon who lived so much in the country at his noble seat should have fallen into such a blunder I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer.

We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.