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

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Our memories are independent of our wills.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

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

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