As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.