“If Cato Censorius had been there, he would either have laughed at their knavish jests, or else at the confusion of their prattles.”

“Finally, we love De Quincey for his abhorrence of all knavish or quackish men, and his deep respect for human nature.”

“I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.”