The Most Ignorant Are The Boldest Conjecturers.

Nothing Convinces Persons Of A Weak Understanding So Effectually, As What They Do Not Comprehend.

Ugliness Is A Letter Of Credit For Some Special Purposes.

Health ... Is The First And Greatest Of All Blessings.

For My Own Part, I Would Rather Be In Company With A Dead Man Than With An Absent One; For If The Dead Man Gives Me No Pleasure, At Least He Shows Me No Contempt; Whereas The Absent One, Silently Indeed, But Very Plainly, Tells Me That He Does Not Think Me Worth His Attention.

Good Manners, To Those One Does Not Love, Are No More A Breach Of Truth, Than "your Humble Servant," At The Bottom Of A Challengeis; They Are Universally Agreed Upon, And Understand To Be Things Of Course. They Are Necessary Guards Of The Decency And Peace Of Society.