Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

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.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.