Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

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.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.