Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.