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

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

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

My voice is still for war.

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.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.