Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.