The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

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

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

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.