His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.