Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.
Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.