A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?