Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

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

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.