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

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.