A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

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.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!