Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

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