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.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.