Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.
The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.