Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

Friendship is Love without his wings!