"And it is to be hoped that no gentleman will be so uncivil as to refuse to dine upon a child who has been so well fattened."

"I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: s…"

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

"Dogs have at least the advantage over men, that they discover their friends, and bark at their enemies."

"Thus Dædalus and Ovid too, That man's a blockhead have confessed, Powel and Stretch the hint pursue; Life is the farce, the world a jest."