The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

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.

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.

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.