"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description."

"Thus Dædalus and Ovid too, That man's a blockhead have confessed, Powel and Stretch the hint pursue; Life is the farce, the world a jest."

"It is a miserable thing to be a dependent, and to have no other resource but the favor of great men."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."