Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not r…

To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, 'My opinion of you is most contemptible, Sir'; he retorted, 'I never knew an opin…

No worse than a bad cold.

So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet - big deal.