The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.

True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.