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.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

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

Look what a little vain dust we are!

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.