The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.