The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

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

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