In love we are all fools alike.

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

Envy is a kind of praise.

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.