It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

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

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.