Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.