The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

Love is a second life.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.