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

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

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