Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

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

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.