To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.