Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

To shoot at crows is powder flung away.

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.

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.