Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.