If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.