Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

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.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.