There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

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

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.