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

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

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

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

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.

Self confidence is the ground stone of success