There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.