The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.