"Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."

"When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric."

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."

"The greatest felicity of life is to be employed in a work, to which one is fitted by nature."

"The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world."