The Characteristic Of Coquettes Is Affectation Governed

Nothing Can Be So Quick And Sudden As The Operations Of The Mind, Especially When Hope, Or Fear, Or Jealousy, To Which The Other Two Are But Journeymen, Set It To Work.

In A Debate, Rather Pull To Pieces The Argument Of Thy Antagonists Than Offer Him Any Of Thy Own; For Thus Thou Wilt Fight Him In His Own Country.

Now In Reality, The World Has Paid Too Great A Compliment To Critics, And Has Imagined Them To Be Men Of Much Greater Profundity Than They Really Are.

I Am Content; That Is A Blessing Greater Than Riches; And He To Whom That Is Given Need Ask No More.

Fashion Is The Great Governor Of This World; It Presides, Not Only In Matters Of Dress And Amusement, But In Law, Physic, Politics, Religion, And All Other Things Of The Gravest Kind; Indeed, The Wisest Of Men Would Be Puzzled To Give Any Better Reason Why Particular Forms In All These Have Been At Certain Times Universally Received, And At Others Universally Rejected, Than That They Were In Or Out Of Fashion.