In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.