Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.