The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.