The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.