'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

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