What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

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

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.