War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.