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.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.