Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

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.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

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