The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.