Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.