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

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

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

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.