A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Lately we have had many losses.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.