why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.