The joy of life is variety.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.