Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.
The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives