A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.