There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.