What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.