He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

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

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

Beauty is the lover's gift.