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

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

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.