Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.