Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.