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.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Many a truth is told in jest.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.