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.

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.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.