Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

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

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.