It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.