Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.