If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.