If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

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

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.