The sports of children satisfy the child.

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.

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.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.