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.

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

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

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

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.