A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

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

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.