Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.