For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

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

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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.