I never knew any man cured of inattention.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Big-endians and small-endians.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.