None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.