I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

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

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.