All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.