She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

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

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.