With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

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

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.