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.

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.