There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.