The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.