One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

I will maintain it before the whole world.