A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.