A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

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