Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Many a truth is told in jest.
A lie is an excuse guarded
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.