As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.