A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. - Joseph Addison

These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.