Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

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

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

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.

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