Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.