The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.