A Good Conscience Is Never Lawless In

Fashion Is The Great Governor Of This World; It Presides, Not Only In Matters Of Dress And Amusement, But In Law, Physic, Politics, Religion, And All Other Things Of The Gravest Kind; Indeed, The Wisest Of Men Would Be Puzzled To Give Any Better Reason Why Particular Forms In All These Have Been At Certain Times Universally Received, And At Others Universally Rejected, Than That They Were In Or Out Of Fashion.

He In A Few Minutes Ravished This Fair Creature, Or At Least Would Have Ravished Her, If She Had Not, By A Timely Compliance, Prevented Him.

A Lottery Is A Taxation On All Of The Fools In Creation.

Scarcely One Person In A Thousand Is Capable Of Tasting The Happiness Of Others.

The Raillery Which Is Consistent With Good-breeding Is A Gentle Animadversion Of Some Foible, Which, While It Raises The Laugh In The Rest Of The Company, Doth Not Put The Person Rallied Out Of Countenance, Or Expose Him To Shame Or Contempt. On The Contrary, The Jest Should Be So Delicate That The Object Of It Should Be Capable Of Joining In The Mirth It Occasions.