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

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.