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

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.