Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

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

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.