You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

"Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost."

"Your levellers wish to "level down" as far as themselves; but they cannot bear "levelling up" to themselves."

"Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor."