We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.