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.

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.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.