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.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.