Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.