I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.