When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

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.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.