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

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.