Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.