Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.