Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

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

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

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

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.