Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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

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

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.