If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.