It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.