It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.