Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

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.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.