Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.