I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

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

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.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

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.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.