The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

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.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason