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

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.