A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

Error is always talkative.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

The very pink of perfection.

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.