Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

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