It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

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

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

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

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.