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.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

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

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.