Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.