It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

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

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.