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

Handsome is that handsome does.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

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

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.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.