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

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

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

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.