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.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.