A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.