And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

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.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

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.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.