I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.