Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.