Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

Those who know the least obey the best.

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

One may like the love and despise the lover.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

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