The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

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

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

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

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.