I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

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 schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

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

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.