The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

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

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.