I always get the better when I argue alone.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.