Satire Should, Like A Polished Razor Keen,

Solitude Begets Whimsies.

I Have Often Observ'd The Loudest Laughers To Be The Dullest Fellows In The Company.

People Commonly Educate Their Children As They Build Their Houses, According To Some Plan They Think Beautiful, Without Considering Whether It Is Suited To The Purposes For Which They Are Designed.

Muse, Time Has Taught Me That All Metaphysical Systems, Even Historical Facts Given As Truths, Are Hardly That, So I Amuse Myself With More Agreeable Lies; I No Longer Read Anything But Novels.

I Am Patriot Enough To Take Pains To Bring This Usefull Invention Into Fashion In England, And I Should Not Fail To Write To Some Of Our Doctors Very Particularly About It, If I Knew Anyone Of 'em That I Thought Had Virtue Enough To Destroy Such A Considerable Branch Of Revenue For The Good Of Mankind, But That Distemper Is Too Beneficial To Them Not To Expose To All Their Resentment The Hardy Wight That Should Undertake To Put An End To It.