I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

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.

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.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.