Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Round numbers are always false.

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.