Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

People can commend the weather without envy.