Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

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.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.