Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.