He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.