The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

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.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.