She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.