A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.