Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

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

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.