Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.