Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.