Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.