Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.