Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

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

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

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

Books, the children of the brain.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.