These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.