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.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.