A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.