Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.