If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

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.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

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