A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.