It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.