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

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

I row after health like a waterman.

May you live all the days of your life.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

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