It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.