The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.