A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

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

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.