If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

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

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

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.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.