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

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.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Hope, like the gleaming taper

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.