Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

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.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.