Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.