A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.