Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.