A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.