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.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Books, the children of the brain.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.