"For we are told by a grave author, an eminent French physician, that health is the most valuable of all possessions; and that it is to be acquired by eating, and by drinking, and by sleeping, and by e…"

"The only way to retrieve the credit of the nation, is to pay off the public debts."

"Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."

"The three grand enemies of human happiness are public envy, civil discord, and religious faction."