Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

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.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.