I never knew any man cured of inattention.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

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.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.