A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

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

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.