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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best advantage.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.