The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?