Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.