I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.