By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.