A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.