Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.