What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.