Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place..

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none..

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not..

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up..

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more..

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation..

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him..

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be..

We must eat to live, and not live to eat..

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did….

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage..

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding….

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adop….

These are called the pious frauds of friendship..

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence..

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometim….

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own..

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure..

Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, ….

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last..

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open..