What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.