No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

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.