"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork."

"The only way to retrieve the credit of the nation, is to pay off the public debts."

"The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world."

"Gold defiles with frequent touch; There's nothing fouls the hand so much."

"Thus Dædalus and Ovid too, That man's a blockhead have confessed, Powel and Stretch the hint pursue; Life is the farce, the world a jest."