Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.