That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

Royal favorites are often obliged to carry their complaisance farther than they meant. They live for their master's pleasure and they die for his convenience.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up o…

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.