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

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.