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

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

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