All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.