Man differs more from man than man from beast

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Late children are early orphans.

'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.