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

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.