Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

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

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

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!

As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them.