There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

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