The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

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

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.