Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.