The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.