'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.