An honest man's the noblest work of God.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.