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.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

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

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.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.