Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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.