You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

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

Error is ever talkative.

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.