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.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

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