Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!