Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

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.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

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