Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Mankind is unamendable.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.