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.

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

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

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

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.