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

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

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.