It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.