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

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.