As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

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

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.