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

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

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

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.