That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.