The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.