My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

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.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.