"I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

"I have a great passion for truth, and I hate all lies."

"The petrifactions of a plodding brain."

"All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith."

"Proud Wellington, with eagle beak so curled, That nose, the hook where he suspends the world!"