Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.