That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Vision is seeing the invisible.