Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.