O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.