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

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.