| Quotes |
Topic |
| Flirtation | The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. |
| Foppery | Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. |
| Hatters | My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear. |
| Health | Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies. |
| Honor | Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honor shall be mine. |
| Jest | Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. |
| Judges | A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. |
| Judgment | In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye; Each little speck and blemish find, To our own stronger errors blind. |
| Judgment | So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. |
| Learning | Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. |
| Linguists | Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. |
| Medicine | "Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow. |
| Melancholy | Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. |
| Moon | Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night. |
| Mountains | Over the hills and far away. |
| Navy | All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd. |
| Parting | We only part to meet again. |
| Parting | Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part. |
| Proverbs | In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree. |
| Proverbs | Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade. |
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