It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
The worst evils are those that never arrive.