Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

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.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

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.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.