An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

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.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.