He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.