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

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

A lie is an excuse guarded

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

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

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.