Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

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.

Bread is the staff of life.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

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

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.