A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.