"Necessity, the mother of invention."

"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."

"He lost his memory forty years before he died by a fever, and would repeat the same thought sometimes in the compass …"

"Wycherley used to read himself asleep o' nights either in Montaigne, Rochefoucault, Seneca, or Gracian; for these wer…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"

"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""

"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."

"Longing while living for laurel and bays, Under this willow a poor poet 'lays'; With little to censure, and less to p…"

"Among the maggots that breed in the corruption of poetry one of the commonest is the bookworm. When Athens had decaye…"