One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

Almost anything is possible with time