Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.