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

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.