I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.