Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own. - Jonathan Swift

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Bread is the staff of life.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired: for in the course of things, men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers; but if you would once convince the town or country profligate, by topics drawn from the view of their own quiet, reputation, health, and advantage, their infidelity would soon drop off: This I confess is no easy task, because it is almost in a literal sense, to fight with beasts.