A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

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