Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

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

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

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

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.