The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.