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

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.