Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.