“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.”
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
“Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
“Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.”
“Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.”
“Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.”
“An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.”
“When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.”
“Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.”
“Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.”
“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
“Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.”
“At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.”
“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
“Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.”
“Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.”
“Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.”
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.”
“Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.”
“On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.”
“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
“Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.”
“Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.”
“For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.”
“The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.”
“Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?”
“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”