It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

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

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

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.