The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

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

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

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

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Big-endians and small-endians.