Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.