And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

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

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

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

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.