A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

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

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

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.