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.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

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.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

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

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.