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

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

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.

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

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Those who know the least obey the best.