Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.