Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.