Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Observation is an old man's memory.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.