It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

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

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

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

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.