Now or never was the time.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.