Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

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.

There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.