Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of sa….

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body..

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband..

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it..

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of ….

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it..

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox..

The insupportable labor of doing nothing..

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal educatio….

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives..

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an ….

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life..

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered..

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called th….

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of th….

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their….

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false..

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible..

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to he….