It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

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.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.