It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.