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

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

In rising sighs and falling tears.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.