It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, ….

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters..

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself..

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concernin….

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go..

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if ….

Wine and youth are fire upon fire..

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy..

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure..

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love..

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress..

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation..

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of..

A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet wit….

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom..

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the forme….

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you..

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea..

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this d….

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculo….

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune..