He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.