The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.
Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.