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

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

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.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.