Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.