There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.

A person can't help their birth.

True love is better than glory.

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.