Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

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

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.