He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.