There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.