The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
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.