The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.