It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.