It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

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

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.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.