'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living Souls, hav…

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.

All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people…