All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.