If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.