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.
Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.