The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

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

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.