The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Silence gives consent.