All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

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

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.