The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.