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.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.