Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.