Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

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.

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.