In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

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

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

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

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.