Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.