It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.