Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.