I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

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

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.