"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

"I am not fond of giving advice, but when I do, I expect it to be taken."

"What they do in the north, they do not in the south."

"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage."

"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."