Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Man is a gaming animal.