It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

- Charles Churchill

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

- Charles Churchill

Genius is of no country.

- Charles Churchill

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

- Charles Churchill

A joke's a very serious thing.

- Charles Churchill

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

- Charles Churchill

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagi…

- Charles Churchill

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

- Charles Churchill

What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds …

- Charles Churchill