The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.