He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.