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

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.