Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

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

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.