"Calumnies are answered best with silence."

“He is a narrow-minded man, that affects a triumph in any glorious study; but to triumph in a lie, and a lie themselves have forged, is frontless. Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.”

“Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.”

“I will eat exceedingly, and prophesy.”

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”

“Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks...”