The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

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.

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