If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

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.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.