Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.