Every dog must have his day.

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.

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.