A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

The woman that deliberates is lost.