Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Love is only one of many passions.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.