I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.

I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their pleasantries; and by saying Well, and so?--as if they had not done, and that the sting were still to come. This disconcerts them, as they have no resources in themselves, and have but one set of jokes to live upon.