I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

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

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.