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.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.