"...and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless t…"

"It always amazes me, when I reflect on the women, who are the first to propagate scandal of one another. If they woul…"

"A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe tempo…"

"Our supreme governors, the mob."

"My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society—I hate Papists, as a man, not as …"

"If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus,…"

"Why, I'll swear I see no difference between a country gentleman and a sirloin; whenever the first laughs, or the latt…"

"Instead of the glorious and ever-memorable year 1759, as the newspapers call it, I call it this ever-warm and victori…"

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Her…"

"Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater."