Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.