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

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.