When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.