Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

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.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.