I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?