Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

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.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.