Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.