Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.