when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.