For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

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?

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

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

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.