Tobias Smollett

“Facts are stubborn things.”

“Charity begins at home.”

“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.”

“I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.”

“Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“His conversation was a regular desert, from which not a single sprig of genuine humor could be collected.”

“There is a time for all things.”

“He that is not sensible of his loss, has lost nothing.”