About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

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.

Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

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.