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

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.