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

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

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

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

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