When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.