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.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
A babe is fed with milk and praise.
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!