"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description."

"'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit. Will condescend to take a bit."

"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense."

"Although avarice is the most sordid of all vices, yet it is the least scandalous."

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