Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

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

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

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

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.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.