It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.