Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

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

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.