A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

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.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.