If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.