E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

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

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

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.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.