To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.