I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

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