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

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.