What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Applause abates diligence.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.