Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.