Many a truth is told in jest.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

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

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.