We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.