Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.