I never knew any man cured of inattention.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

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.