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

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.