Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...

No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.