“They talk most who have the least to say.”
“Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.”
“Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.”
“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
“Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.”
“Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.”
“And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.”
“They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.”
“Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.”
“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
“To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.”
“Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.”