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.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.