In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.