I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.