Their Is No Defense Against Criticism Except

A Man That Has A Taste Of Music, Painting, Or Architecture, Is Like One That Has Another Sense, When Compared With Such As Have No Relish Of Those Arts

To Be Exempt From The Passions With Which Others Are Tormented, Is The Only Pleasing Solitude.

Though We Seem Grieved At The Shortness Of Life In General, We Are Wishing Every Period Of It At An End. The Minor Longs To Be At Age, Then To Be A Man Of Business, Then To Make Up An Estate, Then To Arrive At Honors, Then To Retire.

Peaceable Times Are The Best To Live In, Though Not So Proper To Furnish Materials For A Writer.

There Is Not A More Melancholy Object Than A Man Who Has His Head Turned With Religious Enthusiasm.