They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself