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

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

All we behold is miracle.

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.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.