There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.