Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Don't set your wit against a child.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.