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

Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.