Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Error is always talkative.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.