Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

Order is heaven's first law.

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.