Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Those who can bear all can dare all.