We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.