Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.