A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.