For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.