Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

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

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.