Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.