We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.