It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.