“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”

“Then most our trouble still when most admired,And still the more we give, the more required;Whose fame with pains we guard, but lose with ease,Sure some to vex, but never all to please.”

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”

“Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.”

“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake”