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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.