A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

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.