What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.