Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.