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

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.