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.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.