Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

Order is heaven's first law.

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.