Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

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 pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

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

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.