A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.