The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

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

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

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.