The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.