He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.