Every dog must have his day.

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.