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

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.