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

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

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.