"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"That was excellently observed', say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken."

"And it is to be hoped that no gentleman will be so uncivil as to refuse to dine upon a child who has been so well fattened."

"I am not fond of arguments, because they are generally productive of more heat than light."