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

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.