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.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.