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

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.

It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

Big-endians and small-endians.