The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.